May 02
Sffgeek Comments: I would like to suggest an additional category – covers using stock images completely irrelevant to the book’s content.
Published 1970
Sffgeek Comments: I would like to suggest an additional category – covers using stock images completely irrelevant to the book’s content.
Published 1970
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:27 am
Surely…somehow… somewhere… some biology text books have the most amazing covers with cat people and space ships on them!
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:02 am
The Very Hungry Caterpillar branches out – into space!
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:04 am
Now, now, you are jumping to conclusions. Obviously this is a million-mile-long Space Caterpillar, adrift in the, uh… Leaf Nebula.
May 2nd, 2012 at 11:16 am
With some purple eyes, this would make a much better cover for Anything You Can Do…
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Fortunately, the stock photo was NOT used for any of these SF book titles:
– FLASHER FROM BEYOND THE STARS
– THE ALIEN WITH GREEN FINGERS
– I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:35 pm
This cover worms my heart.
May 2nd, 2012 at 1:29 pm
@SI. Those textbooks might even still be in use somewhere.
May 2nd, 2012 at 4:59 pm
It’s like those bland covers for print-on-demand books that feature neutral landscapes that have nothing to do with the book’s content, only published in 1970.
May 2nd, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Thought maybe they were trying for a Hellstrom Chronicle vibe but it pre-dates the movie by a year.
May 2nd, 2012 at 6:15 pm
@THX: you read my mind. I can just see Jupiter with a big hole where the great red spot used to be.
May 3rd, 2012 at 6:36 am
I wonder what the back-up cover was, if this was considered the better option.
May 3rd, 2012 at 11:06 am
Cover photos that were considered but rejected:
1. A tarantula eating a horsefly
2. A flock of red ants swarming over a mouse carcass
3. A butterfly landing on a dog turd
May 10th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Frikkin creepy though.
May 25th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
What exactly would a caterpillar own that would be worthy of trade? Silk?
August 9th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
@SI and L.B., I think I got the science textbook with the space ships and stuff.
I thought it was awesome…it may not have been the mix up from this particular cover, but it was during a time in the late 80s/early 90s when they were trying to make science cool.
Maybe they were trying to do the opposite for this cover.
June 14th, 2022 at 2:54 am
Panther Science Fiction’s “why even try” cover art policy is perhaps the main reason I’ve never heard of them until now.
@THX 1138 and @Rachel J: Awww! It’s the baby version of The Lex, organic spaceship (I’m very hungry, Stan)
@Tom Noir: groan! GSS!